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Job 28:3 — King James Version← Study notes

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.


Job 28:3Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 28:310 words
HebrewMeaning
קֵ֤ץqēṣ
an endnounH7093
after · end · finite · process
שָׂ֤םśām
someone putsverbH7760
any wise · bring · call · care ···
לַ/חֹ֗שֶׁךְlaḥōšekə
to the darknesspronH2822
night · obscurity
וּֽ/לְ/כָלwləkāl
and to everyconjH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
תַּ֭כְלִיתtakəliyt
outermost partnounH8503
perfect
ה֣וּאhwʾ
heprepH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
חוֹקֵ֑רḥwōqēr
is searching forverbH2713
search · seek · sound · try
אֶ֖בֶןʾeben
the stone ofnounH68
carbuncle · mason · plummet · hail- ···
אֹ֣פֶלʾōpel
gloomnounH652
obscurity · privily
וְ/צַלְמָֽוֶתwəṣaləmāwet
and deep darknessconjH6757
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 28:3

He hath set a time to darkness, and Himself vieweth the end of all and everyone. He hath Himself ‘set a time to the darkness,’ i.e. bounds to the wicked, where they should cease to be wicked. Whence it is said to them by the Apostle; Ye-were sometimes darkness, but 1l0W are ye light in the Lord. Like as to the other disciples as well the same great teacher saith, The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 18 §45
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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